About The Word Clumsy
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Clumsy
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What's The Definition Of Clumsy?
[adj] not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
[adj] lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" [adj] showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [adj] difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl" Synonyms | Synonyms for Clumsy: awkward | bunglesome | bungling | clunky | cumbersome | fumbling | gawky | ill-chosen | inapt | incompetent | inept | infelicitous | ungainly | unmanageable | unskilled | unwieldy Related Terms | Find terms related to Clumsy: all thumbs | awkward | barbaric | barbarous | blunderheaded | blundering | boorish | botched | bovine | bulky | bumbling | bungling | butterfingered | cacophonous | careless | cloddish | clownish | clumsy-fisted | coarse | contrary | crosswise | crude | cumbersome | cumbrous | deficient | discommodious | doggerel | Doric | dysphemistic | elephantine | fingers all thumbs | fumbling | gauche | gawkish | gawky | graceless | gross | half-assed | ham-fisted | ham-handed | haphazard | harsh | heavy-handed | hit-and-miss | hit-or-miss | hulking | hulky | impractical | improper | impure | in bad taste | incommodious | inconcinnate | inconcinnous | inconvenient | incorrect | indecorous | inelegant | inept | infelicitous | left-hand | left-handed | loutish | low | lubberly | lumbering | lumpish | lumpy | maladroit | massive | massy | messy | oafish | outlandish | perverse | ponderous | promiscuous | rude | slipshod | slipshoddy | sloppy | slovenly | sluttish | splay | stiff | tasteless | troublesome | uncourtly | uncouth | undignified | uneuphonious | unfelicitous | ungainly | ungraced | ungraceful | unhandy | unhappy | unmanageable | unpolished | unrefined | unseemly | untidy | unwieldy | vulgar | wooden See Also | Clumsy In Webster's Dictionary \Clum"sy\, a. [Compar. {Clumsier}; superl. {Clumsiest}.]
[OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel.
klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf.
1st {Clam}, and 1st {Clamp}.]
1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]
2. Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or
readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy;
unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as,
a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a
clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.
But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast
shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. --Dryden.
Syn: See {Awkward}.
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